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The poet is making an etiological pun on the name Αἰνείας Aineias (Aeneas) and the adjective αἰνὸν ainon (‘dreadful’). Some six centuries or so later Aeneas becomes, of course, the foundational hero in Roman Vergil’s great epic, the Aeneid, from 29/19 BCE.